Do you have to administrate a computer lab or a whole school network?
Would you like to install servers, workstations and laptops which
will then work together?
Do you want the stability of Debian with network services already
preconfigured?
Do you wish to have a web-based tool to manage systems and several
hundred or even more user accounts?
Have you asked yourself if and how older computers could be used?

Then Debian Edu is for you. The teachers themselves or their technical support
can roll out a complete multi-user multi-machine study environment within
a few days. Debian Edu comes with hundreds of applications pre-installed,
but you can always add more packages from Debian.

The Debian Edu developer team is happy to announce Debian Edu 9
Stretch, the first Debian Edu / Skolelinux release based
on the Debian 9 Stretch release.
Please consider testing it and reporting back (<debian-edu@lists.debian.org>)
to help us to improve it further.

About Debian Edu and Skolelinux

Debian Edu, also known as
Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school network.
Immediately after installation a school server running all services
needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users and
machines to be added via GOsa², a comfortable web interface.
A netbooting environment is prepared, so after initial
installation of the main server from CD or USB stick all other
machines can be installed via the network.
Older computers (even up to ten or so years old) can be used as LTSP
thin clients or diskless workstations, booting from the network without
any installation at all.
The Debian Edu school server provides an LDAP database and Kerberos
authentication service, centralized home directories, a DHCP server, a web
proxy and many other services. The desktop contains more than 60 educational
software packages and more are available from the Debian archive.
Schools can choose between the desktop environments KDE Plasma, GNOME, LXDE,
MATE and Xfce.

New features for Debian Edu 9 Stretch

These are some items from the release notes for Debian Edu 9 Stretch,
based on the Debian 9 Stretch release.
The full list is part of the manual.

Plymouth is installed and activated by default, except for the 'Main Server' and 'Minimal' profiles.

Icinga replaces Nagios as monitoring tool.

LTSP now uses NBD instead of NFS for the root filesystem.

A Japanese translation of the manual is now available.

Download options, installation steps and manual

A multi-architecture CD / USB stick image (647 MiB) for network booting can
be downloaded at the following locations:

Please see the Debian Edu wiki pages for the
latest English version of the Debian Edu Stretch manual.
The manual has been fully translated to German, French, Italian, Danish,
Dutch, Norwegian Bokmål and Japanese. A partly translated version exists for Spanish.
An overview of
the latest translated versions of the manual is available.

More information about Debian 9 Stretch itself is provided in the release
notes and the installation manual; see https://www.debian.org/.

About Debian

The Debian Project is an association of Free Software developers who
volunteer their time and effort in order to produce the completely free
operating system Debian.

Contact Information

For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at
https://www.debian.org/ or send mail to
<press@debian.org>.